The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts

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Achromatopsia, 293–294 Acquaintance, 107–108 Agnosia, visual, 156–160, 179, 293–294 AIR theory of consciousness, 325n9 Allen, C., 144, 249, 251–252 Allen-Hermanson, S., 252–255 Ambiguous figures, 151–156, 179 Analytic/synthetic statements, 82–84 Animals, 23, 229–268 and conceptualism, 262–268 and I-thoughts, 237–248 and memory, 239–242 and mindreading, 244–247 and pain, 232–237 Appearance-reality task, 260–261 A priori/a posteriori knowledge, 82–83 Armstrong, D., 49, 121 Ashby, F., 286–287 Asymmetric dependence theory, 35 Attention, 6, 52–53, 108–110, 215–218, 293. See also Awareness and consciousness, 169–172 joint, 224 Autism, 257–262 Awareness, 6, 9 focal (attentive), 109–114, 116–134, 161–163 peripheral (inattentive), 109–114, 116–134, 161–163 Baars, B., 80, 100, 279–280, 285 Backward masking, 283 Baillargeon, R., 189, 191–192, 227 Baron-Cohen, S., 258, 260 Bayne, T., 292, 294–300 Beeckmans, J., 325n8 Behne, T., 224 Beliefs, 22–27, 226–228 Bennett, J., 188, 238, 242, 252 Bermúdez, J., 138–139, 144–145, 156, 180, 198, 256–257 Binding Problem, 91, 291–302 Birch, S., 227 Blindness, change/inattentional, 162–163, 170–171 Blindsight, 118 Block, N., 8, 21, 43, 122–123, 166–167, 276, 278, 282 Bloom, P., 205, 227 Botterell, A., 82 Boucher, J., 261 Brain, 270–291 Brentano, F., 15, 103, 106, 108, 111, 115 Brewer, B., 137, 174–176, 181–182, 215, 263–264 Brook, A., 107, 292, 296 Browne, D., 255 Bullier, J., 283 Buras, T., 107–108 Byrne, A., 42, 71–72, 165, 172–173, 267 Call, J., 255 Campbell, J., 217 Capgras delusion, 294 Index 372 Index Carey, S., 189, 196, 203 Carruthers, P., 6, 16–17, 19, 21, 26, 38, 41–42, 44–49, 140, 225, 228–239, 245, 254–256, 258, 261 Caston, V., 103 Causality, 194–196, 221, 223, 275 Chalmers, D., 5, 7, 12–13, 18, 21, 75–77, 79–84, 86–87, 275–276, 292, 294–299 Chomsky, N., 186 Chuard, P., 136, 163, 166, 169, 173–175 Churchland, P., 68, 282, 286 Clark, Andy, 147 Clark, Austen, 65 Clayton, N., 240, 245 Cleeremans, A., 289–292 Cognitive overload argument, 46 Coliva, A., 181 Color, 137, 174–177 Conceivability arguments, 18–21, 80–83, 306n3 Concept, 30, 51, 68, 77–79 acquisition of, 180–183, 185–219, 288–290 artifact, 199, 204–205 classical model of, 141 coarse-grained/fine-grained, 173–183 comparative, 176–180, 197–198 demonstrative, 19, 174–176, 180–181, 197–198, 215–219, 231 exemplar theory of, 142 indexical, 19–20 learning, 187–188, 212–213, 288–289 mental, 223–228, 230, 243–251 natural kind, 199, 202–203 object, 191, 199 phenomenal, 18–20 possession, 140–144, 155, 168, 177– 179, 191–198, 202, 204, 214–215, 218–219, 225, 247–251 prototype theory of, 141–142 proxytype theory of, 142 recognitional, 18–20 reidentification condition of, 175–179 sortal, 191–192 testing methods for infants, 189–190 theory-theory of, 142, 198 (see also Mindreading) Conceptualism, 135–183 and animals, 262–268 and concept acquisition, 210–218 definition of, 135–137 and fineness of grain, 173–183 and modality, 150–151 and the richness of experience, 161–173 Conceptual pluralism, 142 Confabulation, 68–69, 97 Connectionism, 288–291 Connection Principle (CP), 21–25, 146–147, 234 Consciousness access, 8 animal, 229–268 definition of, 5–9 hard problem of, 75–88 infant, 219–228 and intentionality, 11–12, 21–28 intrinsic/extrinsic, 57–58, 72 paradox, 2 phenomenal, 7–9, 41 phenomenal character, 7, 39 124–125 the real hard problem of, 185–186 state/creature, 5, 276 subjective/qualitative character, 7, 64–65, 124–125, 151 transitive/intransitive, 6, 72 unity of, 161, 291–302 Content, mental analog/digital, 140, 162–163 causal theory of, 34–36, 107, 200–203, 217 conceptual, 135–137 (see also Conceptualism) Fregean/Russellian, 13, 36–37, 44, 149 narrow/wide, 12–13, 26, 37–38, 43–44 Index 373 nonconceptual, 40–41, 138–140, 284 subpersonal, 145–147, 217, 219 Continuity argument, 262–268 Convergence zones, 287–288, 297 Core knowledge, 189–205, 212–213 Cortex. See Brain Cowey, A., 279 Cowie, F., 204 Crick, F., 74, 77, 273, 275 Cross-order integration (COI) theory, 277–278 Dainton, B., 291, 298–299 Damasio, A., 281, 287 De Gardelle, V., 167 Dehaene, S., 280, 284 Del Cul, A...